# Query AWS RDS Data from the command line
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## Goal
## Installing
Prebuilt binaries for several platforms are available under
[Github releases](https://github.com/bruceadams/query-rds-data/releases).
On macOS, the prebuilt binary can be installed using [Homebrew](https://brew.sh).
```bash
$ brew tap bruceadams/utilities
$ brew install query-rds-data
```
If you have the [Rust tool chain](https://rustup.rs/) installed,
`cargo install query-rds-data` will work.
## Building
This project is written in Rust. **The** way to install Rust is from
[Rustup.rs](https://rustup.rs/). Once Rust is installed on your machine,
running `cargo build` in the root of this checkout should _just work_
and produces a debug binary in `target/debug/query-rds-data`.
## Built-in help
```bash
$ cargo build # The first build takes longer, with more output
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.22s
$ target/debug/query-rds-data --help
query-rds-data
Query an Amazon RDS database
USAGE:
query-rds-data [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <query>
ARGS:
<query> SQL query
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-v, --verbose Increase logging verbosity (-v, -vv, -vvv, etc)
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-d, --database <database>
Database name [env: AWS_RDS_DATABASE=]
-c, --db-cluster-identifier <db-id>
RDS database identifier [env: AWS_RDS_CLUSTER=]
-f, --format <format>
Output format. One of "csv", "cooked", "raw" [default: csv]
-p, --aws-profile <profile>
AWS source profile to use. This name references an entry in
~/.aws/config
-r, --aws-region <region>
AWS region to target [env: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=] [default:
us-east-1]
-u, --db-user-identifier <user-id>
RDS user identifier (really the AWS secret identifier)
[env: AWS_RDS_USER=]
```
## Error messages
I hope that the error messages from `query-rds-data` are helpful
for figuring out what went wrong and how to address the issue.
```bash
# No RDS instances exist
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names"
Error: No DBs found
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier nope
Error: No DB matched "nope", available ids are []
# Single RDS instance exists
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier nope
Error: No DB matched "nope", available ids are ["demo"]
# No credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names"
Error: No DB user secrets found
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-user-identifier fake
Error: No DB user matched "fake", available users are []
# Single secret exists for this database
$ query-rds-data "create database db1"
""
$ query-rds-data "create table db1.names (id int, name varchar(64))"
""
$ query-rds-data "insert into db1.names values (1,'Bruce')"
""
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names"
id,name
1,Bruce
$ query-rds-data "select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema='db1'"
TABLE_CATALOG,TABLE_SCHEMA,TABLE_NAME,TABLE_TYPE,ENGINE,VERSION,ROW_FORMAT,TABLE_ROWS,AVG_ROW_LENGTH,DATA_LENGTH,MAX_DATA_LENGTH,INDEX_LENGTH,DATA_FREE,AUTO_INCREMENT,CREATE_TIME,UPDATE_TIME,CHECK_TIME,TABLE_COLLATION,CHECKSUM,CREATE_OPTIONS,TABLE_COMMENT
def,db1,names,BASE TABLE,InnoDB,10,Compact,0,0,16384,0,0,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,latin1_swedish_ci,NULL,,
# Explicit cluster and user names can be used
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier demo
id,name
1,Bruce
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-user-identifier admin
id,name
1,Bruce
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier demo --db-user-identifier admin
id,name
1,Bruce
# Names that are not found list what is available to be selected
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier nope
Error: No DB matched "nope", available ids are ["demo"]
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-user-identifier fake
Error: No DB user matched "fake", available users are ["admin"]
# If there are multiple clusters or users available, you must select one
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names"
Error: Multiple DBs found, please specify one of ["demo", "empty"]
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier demo
Error: Multiple DB users found, please specify one of ["admin", "read_only"]
$ query-rds-data "select * from db1.names" --db-cluster-identifier demo --db-user-identifier read_only
id,name
1,Bruce
```